Plantation Slaves

Famous quotes containing the words plantation and/or slaves:

“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)

“No, I’m Spartacus. You come to free the slaves or something?”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)